![]() That way, when I need a new machine, I can simply create a copy of the virtual disk and add any additional software I need, saving myself valuable time creating new virtual environments. ![]() Download it now from .Īs a virtual machine environment user, I regularly create ‘base’ images of machines that I can reuse – a base Windows Server 2003 environment, or SQL Server 2005 environment for example. This new feature is only available in the Sun VirtualBox 3.0 release and above. The toolbar can also be pinned open if required.įor those Windows users reading this post, the toolbar behaves just like the Remote Desktop toolbar that is displayed at the top of the screen during a Terminal Services session. When running a VM in full-screen mode, moving your mouse to the bottom of the screen displays the new toolbar, as shown below.Īll of the features available when running the VM in windowed mode are now available in full-screen mode, including: mounting devices, shared folders, shutdown options etc. It looks as though the VirtualBox Team have added a nice new feature in their 3.0 release – the full-screen toolbar! To move it to the top of the screen, open the Settings dialog for any VM, select General->Advanced and tick the Mini Toolbar: Show at Top of Screen. Update: The full-screen toolbar can be moved to the top of the screen, which (IMHO) is a much more usable location. Windows Server 2008 Core will kindly oblige and shutdown cleanly. Select the ‘Send the shutdown signal’ option and click Ok (the VM sometimes doesn’t respond to the first attempt, but the second attempt is usually recognised). I’ve recently discovered that Server Core will shutdown cleanly when sent the VirtualBox shutdown signal, issued when closing the VM – to bring up the Close Virtual Machine dialog (shown below), simply close the Window the VM is running in, type +Q, or issue the Machine->Close menu-command: Unfortunately, I’m lazy and can’t be bothered to log-in just to shutdown…. Shutting the sever down seems the best way to go, but given that Server Core is the window-less version of the OS, the shutdown command needs to be issued from the command-prompt. Extend the root partition of LVM Setup (debian-7 in my case) so we can use the space of both partitions.I run Windows Server 2008 Core in a VirtualBox virtual machine as my Active Directory Domain Controller for a small BizTalk test environment and I’ve discovered that it doesn’t take kindly to being ‘saved’ – when the server is resumed my other servers seem to be unable to communicate with it and do AD type ‘stuff’.Create a partition using all the free space in our disk (Step #1).To increase the LVM partition size this is the approach we are about to use: In my case, I have a LVM partition setup so this is not so straightforward to accomplish as a normal partition setup. Now you can run the VM (from VirtualBox not vagrant) and get into SystemRescueCd and start the resizing process. Hence the Live Distro so you don't need to use the disk and just boot into it to run gparted (or parted for the cli equivalent).įor doing this I added the SystemRescueCd Live ISO to the VM (VM Settings -> Storage -> CD/DVD Device) and changed the Boot Order (VM Settings -> System -> Boot Order) to set the CD/DVD First to be able to boot the Live Distro instead of the VM. You need this because you cannot resize the disk that you are currently running the OS from. I grabbed SystemRescueCd (~430Mb) but any live distro with gparted in it will work. You can check that your VM is working by doing a vagrant up and then shutting it down before the next step. ![]() Note: After doing this I had to remove and re-add the disk from within VirtualBox. VBoxManage clonehd temp.vdi resized.vmdk -format vmdk # ![]() VBoxManage modifyhd temp.vdi -resize 65536 # resize to 64gb VBoxManage clonehd temp.vdi -format vdi # we need vdi format for the resize ![]()
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |
AuthorWrite something about yourself. No need to be fancy, just an overview. ArchivesCategories |